The Reunion of Two Broken Hearts by Melynda Carlyle

She crossed the world to forget him, she never did…

It is the year 1872. John Reed, a war veteran, is fighting with his demons. War is not a bed of roses and John needs time to recover. His older brother George, who loves him truly and unconditionally, decides to help him. He and John’s best friend, Colin, who happens to run the post office, post an ad about a mail-order bride for John, who has not the slightest idea about this plan.
Roberta, John’s ex-sweetheart who left Texas for a better future, replies. When George realizes who she is, he invites her to visit Texas. Roberta, who has been unlucky in love, accepts. She lost her sweetheart, John, then she lost her mother and her last husband has been poisoned, perhaps by his best friend Harold, who asked her to marry him, in order to erase all her dead husband’s debts.
Roberta meets John for the first time after all these years to find out that he is unable to love. Things are getting worse when Harold finds Roberta and threatens her.
The couple needs to fight their past in order to live a brighter future. Do they belong together?